According to Aristotle's seminal theatrical critique Poetics, there are six elements necessary for theatre: Plot, Character, Idea, Language, Music, and Spectacle, Moving On Theatre Company used mainly Interaction, which is an element Aristotle didn't take into account. Interaction is something which has become essential nowadays, both in communication and in education. Not that interaction wasn't present in Shakespeare's days, interaction has always been present in performance arts, and of course in Shakespeare and Lope de Vega's days, when audiences ate and drank and shouted at the actors without any restraint.
Lope de Vega wrote that for theatre one needs "three boards, two actors, and one passion". That is exactly what Moving On Theatre Comapany offered us at the Language School. Music and Spectacle together with an ability to involve audiences and make people participate. Everybody enjoyed seeing our students go on stage and take part as the professional actors asked volunteers to act when they realised that the audience was there waiting for them to put on a play.
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